Selecting this will add a new tabbed window to the Pipistrelle user interface.

Once you have loaded the Spatial View, the next step is to load your OMI components' spatial data as layers into the view. Click on the Load OMI Layers tab to see how to do this.

When you have added, to your composition, some components which have Input or Output
exchange items which have a spatial aspect, you can view them by switching to the
Spatial View tab and clicking on the (Re)Load OpenMI Layers button.

Pipistrelle will then search the composition for all components with a spatial aspect
and load these spatial descriptions as layers into the dotSpatial component.

Two layers, Connections and Components, will be visible.

The Connections layer contains all the spatially aware connections between components. The
Components layer contains all the components which have spatially aware exchange items.

Within the Components layer there will be a single layer for each component, using the same name
as the component caption. Each component layer will comprise two layers - Sources and Targets.

This tab displays an example of an OpenMI component (our familiar Pond made spatially aware). It shows all four
output (Source) boundaries of the Pond (North, South, East and West) as points.

By loading a world map (via the Layers -> Add Layer ... menu item)
you can see how other layers can be added to the Spatial View.

Consider a model grid similar to our pond example as representing the boundary
of a grid situated in the Gulf of Guinea, as the boundary conditions of a wave
model downscaling to give local wave conditions. By loading a world map (via the
Layers -> Add Layer … menu item) it can be seen in this context how other layers
can be added to the Spatial View.

Right-clicking on each OpenMI layer item will allow you to edit the properties of the selected item.
You can change the caption of the component, for example, by right clicking on the component name
and selecting the OpenMI Properties menu item.